Studies in American Humor

Special Issue: Humor and Ethnicity in the Americas

New Series 3, No. 7 (2000)

 

Contents

Editorial
The Editor's Drawers
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Humor and Ethnicity in the Americas / On the Borderlands
          Karen L. Kilcup
 
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Essays
Laughter in the Aisles: Affect and Power in Contemporary Theoretical and Cultural Discourse
          John Bruns
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Hybrid History: The Pequot War and American Indian Humor
          Dennis R. Perry
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Humor in Spain's American Colonies: The Case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
          Julie Greer Johnson
 
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The Recovery Room

The Comedy of Assimilation in Leo Rosten's Hyman Kaplan Stories
           Dan Shiffman
          Mr. K and the Magi, by Leo Rosten
 

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The Year's Work
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 1999
          Judith Yaross Lee
 
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Reviews
Mark Twain: A Literary Life, by Everett Emerson
          Reviewed by John Bird
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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor, by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don F. Nilsen
          Reviewed by Joseph B. McCullough
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Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts, and Contexts, ed. Shannon Hengen
          Reviewed by Ann Ryan
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Inventing Jerry Lewis, by Frank Krutnik
          Reviewed by J.P. Steed
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The Trickster Shift: Humor and Irony in Contemporary Native Art, by Allan J. Ryan
          Reviewed by James E. Caron
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Humor in Twentieth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide, by Don L. F. Nilsen
          Reviewed by William F. Naufftus
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Defining New Yorker Humor, by Judith Yaross Lee
          Reviewed by Bruce Michelson
 
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Contributors
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Announcements
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